Gabriel Abolade Soyoye, Ph.D is the Executive Chairman of Nimrod Limited, a Management Consulting firm in Lagos, Nigeria. Nimrod comprises a team of multi-disciplinary and multi-competence consultants with expertise in diagnosing and proffering solutions to ailing companies and institutions, conducting and implementing intervention studies, preparing feasibility studies, establishing Marketing Research and focus groups and other organizational needs. He is a foundation fellow of the Nigerian Marketing Association and an honorary Consultant of the Opportunity Industrialization Center in Nigeria.

Dr. Soyoye obtained his earliest certification, a Grade II Teacher's Certificate in 1957 from St Leo's College in Abeokuta, Nigeria; Followed by Diplomas from the British Institute of Management and the British Institute of Export. He holds a 1967 Masters of Science Degree in Management Science from Management Education Institute, Cambridge and Tufts University, Massachusetts, U.S.A. He obtained his Doctoral degree in Business Administration from Sussex Institute of Technology, United Kingdom in 1975.

Dr. Soyoye was a teacher at several Nigerian institutions from 1958 to 1962 before entering into a six-year experience at the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Industries. He has over thirty years of combined experience as an administrator in both the Nigerian Civil Service and Private Industry. Gabriel Soyoye has held various administrative positions at Foremost Dairies Nigeria Ltd and SmithKline Beecham of Scandinavia and Nigeria. In 1993, he served as the Special Advisor to the Nigerian Minister of the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.

Dr. Soyoye has several publications, including "Investment Climate in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects" (1993). He is a member of the selection panel for MBA candidates at the University of Lagos, and an Honorary Fellow of the Nigerian Dental Association. He serves on the Board of several organizations and remains an avid golf and chess player.